Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/7] xen: psr: reserve an RMID for each core

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:19:22AM +0000, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 09:59 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 04:14:41AM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 
> > > XXX Another idea I just have is to allow the user to
> > >     somehow specify a different 'granularity'. Something
> > >     like allowing 'percpu_cmt'|'percore_cmt'|'persocket_cmt'
> > >     with the following meaning:
> > >      + 'percpu_cmt': as in this patch
> > >      + 'percore_cmt': same RMID to hthreads of the same core
> > >      + 'persocket_cmt': same RMID to all cores of the same
> > >         socket.
> > > 
> > >     'percore_cmt' would only allow gathering info on a
> > >     per-core basis... still better than nothing if we
> > >     do not have enough RMIDs for each pCPUs.
> > 
> > Could we allocate nr_online_cpus() / nr_pmids() and have
> > some CPUs share the same PMIDs?
> > 
> Mmm... I hope we can (see the reply to Chao about the per-socketness
> nature of the RMIDs).
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here, though. In the box I have at hand there
> are 144 CPUs and 71 RMIDs. So, 144/71=2... maybe I'm missing something
> of what you mean, how should I use these 2 RMIDs?

The other way - so 2 CPUs use 1 RMID.

> 
> If RMIDs actually are per-socket, extending the existing Xen support to
> reflect that, and take advantage of it would help a lot already. In such
> box, it would mean I could use RMIDs 1-36, on each socket, per per-CPU
> monitoring, and still have 35 RMIDs free (which could be 35x4=140,
> depending *how* we extend te support to match the per-socket nature of
> RMIDs).
> 
> Let's see if that is confirmed... Of course, I can book the box again
> here and test it myself (and will do that, if necessary :-D).
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dario



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